How Florida’s Parent Trigger Bill is a “Charter School Bill About Profit”
Kathleen Oropeza is a tireless public school advocate. Along with co-founders, Christine Bramuchi and Linda Kolbert, Oropeza’s Fund Education Now has been a leading voice in maintaining proper public school funding and in opposing what’s become a clear agenda by many to privatize Florida’s schools. With her permission, the following is her recent op-ed piece on Florida’s pending parent trigger legislation:
When it comes to deceiving voters, Florida politicians earn an A+ every time. The “Parent Empowerment Act” or “parent trigger” promoted as “opening the door to a whole new level of communication between parents and the schools,” is nothing more than another bait-and-switch scheme like the Florida lottery.
The deception started when Rep. Michael Bileca [R-West Miami] and Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto [R-Fort Myers]
